Evening Star Newspaper, January 3, 1935, Page 19

DOCTORS OBJECT 10 DICTATION ON MEDICAL CHARITY District Society Demands Standard Procedure Be Adopted. INSTALLMENT PAYING URGED FOR THOSE ABLE Resolution Says Value of Free Services Probably Exceeds Total Chest Budget. Asserting its members are making an annual contribution to the poor of Washington in the form of services probably exceeding the total annual budget of the Community Chest, the Medical Society of the District of Columbia at its meeting last night adopted a far-reaching statement of its policies in respect to free treat- ment of the indigent and those in reduced circumstances. The society, whose membership in- | cludes a large majority of the medical practitioners of the District, stressed the fact the physician is not objecting to the disproportionate burden of charity which falls upon his shoulders. | He insists, however, that it shall not be dictated, either by official or un official agencies, and that standar procedures be adopted. ! One of these is the Central Ad- | mitting Bureau of the Community Chest, which has the full indorsement of the society. Still another is a; plan, now under consideration, for a | standardized system of ‘“installment payments” for medical services on the part of those who can pay mod- erate fees if given time. The proposal contemplates budgeted payments with- | out interest charges. Points to Social Problem. Concerning this group, the state- ment accompanying a resolution adopted last night says: mobile onto his Jawn. automobile on his front lawn was put to a test by police today. Dr. Edward Comstock Wilson be- WASHINGTON, D. C. TEABH[RS AHABK Mother Flies From Ecuador to Sick Child RATINGSSTEMAS Police Test Right of Doctor To Park Car on His Own Lawn DR. EDWARD C. WILSON, Studying the parking ticket received from the police for driving his auto- —Star Staff Photo. to park my car somewhere.” The case is something new to the Corporation Counsel's office, Police lieves a citizen has that privilege, so | Supt. Ernest W. Brown and Traffic | ast night he drove his sedan through | Director William A. Van Duzer, and he hedge in front of his residence | Dr. Wilson hasn't yet made up his | at 2723 Connecticut avenue and left | mind whether he will go to court and it there all night. ;muke a test case of it. The Police Department. however, took another view, and this morning | Loy Lh Do ot the physician’s car had a “ticket” on | If he wants to go to court, Ernest the windshield, the present of Po- N. Smith, executive vice president of liceman E. G. Mower, eighth precinct, | the American Automobile Association, who decided that Dr. Wilson nad S&ys his organization will defend the violated the law when he drove ove | doctor in the public interest. the sidewalk and further broke the | “There are sufficient serious situ- regulations by leaving his machine 1 | 2tions as regarding traffic enforcement a “public space.” in this city today without police per- [Rrenye irasice. | such ridiculous adventures as ticket- Like all physicians Dr. Wilson gets ing a physician for parking his own a lot of “hurry calls” and when Con- | car on his own lawn when he has no necticut avenue was posted with signs | adjoining place in which to put it sonnel frittering away their time in| “It needs to be called pointedly to | the attention of all concerned that permitting such individuals to become objects of medical charity is not only | unfair to all parties concerned, but contrary to the best interests of | geacy—no parking, 2 am. to 8 am.” | he began to have his doubts about | being able to get to his garage. half | a mile away, in time to answer an emergency summons. life or death emergency at any moment.” Smith said. “It seems to me a warning would have been sufficient. Even if there had been a technical violation, it society as a whole. It causes the individual to lose self-respect and engenders in him anti-social habits of thought concerning the mutual obli- gations between him and the society of which he is a part. “It causes the physician a pecuniary loss and promotes endless friction be- tween him and the agencies re- sponsible for any such inequitable distribution.” The statement continues: “According to statistics given by the report of the Committee on the Costs of Medical Care, the medical profession of the United States, made up of approximately 140,000 physi- cians, contributes services to the sick His front lawn being level with the sidewalk and the hedge thinned by | the cold weather, Dr. Wilson last| night resolved to leave his machine | where he could get to it easily for an | | early morning call. | “These signs were said to have {been put up to facilitate snow re- { moval,” Dr. Wilson said today. “There INCREASE ISSHOWN should prevail. There has been much talk and agreement on the urgent aeed for selective enforcement—mean- ing concentration by the police on reckless, criminal and habitual viola- tors. This incident, it seems to me, is at the opposite pole from the idea of such concentration.” PETITION IS FILED i seems to me the rule of common sense | IGNORING ABILITY Union Representatives Tell Board Method Puts Premium on “Show.” RELATION OF BRAINS TO JOB HELD IGNORED Substitution of “Satisfactory” “and “Unsatisfactory” Cate- gories Is Urged: The relation of brains to teaching ability is practically negligible, if present ratings and tests can be re- lied upon, the Board of Education was |told yesterday as it listened to attacks by teachers in the system of grad- uated teacher ratings employed in the District public schools. Representatives of the District of Columbia Teachers’ Union charged the ratings system is based on false values, destroys professional morale and falls to improve teaching standards. Miss Selma Borchardt, national vice The right of a man to park his | has been very little snow and I've got | president of the American Federation {5t Teachers, said that the alleged lack (of relation between intelligence and {teaching was disclosed in recent studies involving 2,750 teachers by the Fed- eral Office of Education., She cited figures in support of her argument that no accurate quantitative method of measuring teaching exists. ‘The Teachers’ Union wants the present graduated system changed so the only ratings would be “satisfac- tory” and “unsatisfactory. ‘They iclaim the graduated ratings are im- | practical and lead to frequent in- Justices. Relation Negligible. ‘The Office of Education studies showed the coefficient of correlation between teaching success and intelli- gence to be only .06, while any co- { efficient below .30 is considered so a few days ago proclaiming “Emer- |and must have his car available for |lation at all, Miss Borchardt declared. Board of Education members, par- ticularly Henry I. Quinn and Henry Gilligan, both lawyers, looked a little i puzzled at the use of the phrase “co- i efficient of correlation.” “Tell us in plain English what all [ that means.” requested Gilligan, while Quinn nodded his acquiesence in the plea. Miss Borchardt, with the assistance {of Mrs. Henry Grattan Doyle, board member who once was a teacher, ex- plained the expression meant the re- | lation between the two rating scales, with one as the perfect correlation. After spending the entire afternoon listening to the union advocates, the board adjourned with the understand- ing that the hearing would be con- tinued January 14. | periodically to every teacher whom he Foen WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION | small as to show practically no corre- | The union asked that each super- | visory officer be required to submit | ® IN TRAFFIC COURT {New Bedlam Created by Large Number of Minor Cases. Traffic Court became something of | a bedlam today as Judge John P. Mc- | Mahon sought to pass judgment on more than 130 charges of traffic vio- | lations. In several instances. persons had | |five or more charges lodged against them. There were 79 parking charges {in all, 29 for speeding. 5 for dead | |tags and 3 for failing to give 1hand signals. Two persons were ar-, raigned for failure to keep to the right of the street, with a lesser num- | {ber for violations such as reckless driving, failing to stop for stop signs and passing red lights. ny Star THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, 1935. 23] MARY GERTRUDE DRAPP. S0COUNTS HEARD | Daughter in Serious Con- dition After Operation for Her Tonsils. ! ‘The anxious mother of a girl who lies dangerously ill here was en route | today from far-off Ecuador, sped by afrplanes and the gallantry of a Co- lombian pilot. In the northbound Pan-American | plane, which left Colon, Panama, this morning. Mrs. Helen Mantilla was occupying a resefvation turned over to | her by Capt. Ernesto Samper. one of Society and General PAGE B—1 IMPROVING RIVER TERMINALS URGED NEXT FISGAL YEAR Chief of Army Engineers Also Seeks $234,000 for Dredging. LARGEST ITEM IS WORK IN VIRGINIA CHANNEL Cost, Including Filling of Basin at Gravelly Point, Is Placed at $128,000. Improvement of terminal facilities at Washington and the expenditure of $234,000 for dredging and main- tenance of work in the Potomac River are recommended for the fiscal year 1936 in the annual report of the chief of Army engineers made public today. “The terminal and transfer facili- ties at Washington are considered in- | adequate,” the report emphasized in repeating a recommendation for more suitable facilities made last year. | The controlling depth in the Vir- ginia Channel at mean low water in | April. 1934, was 17.8 feet for a width ] Of 400 feet, the depth of the Wash- ington Channel being 214 feet in | June, 1934. The total cost of main- tenance since completion of the exist- * iing project in 1913 was $1,709,511. Channel to Be Dredged. During the coming fiscal year dredging of the Virginia Channel and filling in the basin at Gravelly Point will cost $128.000. That is the largest item in the program to be presented to Congress. The balance of the $234,000 requested includes redredging in the Gravelly Point Basin and con- { struction of levees. Operations during the past fiscal year accounted for the removal of 29,078 cubic yards of material from the shoal in the Virginia Channel off the mouth of Rock Creek at a cost of $12,722. Construction of the re- taining walls for the new deposit MRS. HELEN MANTILLA. —Star Stafl Photos. VIRGINIA CLAIMS | BOUNDARY PROOF Contends 1669 Grant of Land Authentic—U. S. Disputes Validity. the most popular military fiyers in | Colombia. Mrs. Mantilla is hurrying to the bed- side of her daughter, Mary Gertrude Drapp, 13 years old. The girl had her tonsils removed recently and hemorrhages developed. She now is believed improving in the home of her grandmother. Mrs. Gertrude Elliott. 1420 Twenty-first street. Mrs. Elliott wired Mrs. Mantilla Monday in Quito, Ecuador, when Mary's condition grew critical. Mrs. Mantilla began the 4,500-mile | journey by flying up the western coast of South America to Colon. There she found that all reservations on today's cennecting plane were taken, the Asso- An ancient document by which Sir William Berkeley, Colonial Governor of Virginia, granted 6,000 acres of land along the Potomac River to one Robert Howsing. or Howsen, was cited today by Virginia in support of its claim to land now in dispute before (‘Lhe Virginia-District of Columbia | Boundary Commission. Validity of the grant, known to , historians as the Howsing patent, was | challenged promptly by counsel for | the Federal Government on the | basin at Gravelly Point started May 4, last. A total of 87.178 cubic yards of material was placed on the retain- ing levee. The total expenditures for the year was $68,561. No funds are available for engineer- | ing operations in the Potomac River at Alexandria. Va., the report stated, but an allotment will be made after bids are received for dredging approxi- mately 300,000 cubic yards from the Alexandria waterfront. The work will be completed next April. Additional funds are not recommended as it is believed that maintenance will be unnecessary during the year. | River Improvements. Various improvements are recom- mended for the Potomac River in the section commonly known as “below ‘Washington.” The 25 wharf facilities, however, are considered adequate. The sum of $120.000 can be profit- | marks a detailed constructive criticism | _ Last week more than 700 motorists | ciated Press reported. ground it conveyed properties outside , ably expended during the next fiscal poor valued at $1000.000 daily. Ac- cording to these figures, since ap- proximately 1 per cent of the physi- cians in the country as a whole are practicing in the District of Colum- bia, the contribution of free service of the local profession would amount to between $5,000 and $10.000 daily, an annual contribution equaling or exceeding the annual budget of the Community Chest. Says Doctors Bear Burden. “Since the Community Chest is ob- viously unable to remunerate physi- cians for their services to the sick poor, and since the contribution of the District government for this pur- pose is largely represented by 10 physicians to the poor at a salary of §1 per day less 10 per cent, it is obvious that medical care of the! indigent is left practically entirely to the charity of the local profession. “The District government and the Community Chest provide food, shel- INU. 5. JOBS HERE Gain of 616 in Capital, but | Decline Is Registered for Country. \ The Federal force here continued to ! , grow in November, but for one of the {few times since the New Deal activi- | tiss got under way, there was a decline | in_the country as a whole, the monthly | report of the Civil Service Commis- .sion today disclosed. ! In Washington there was an in- | crease of 616, representing the differ- | ence between the addition of 1,163 | permanent or emergency workers, and the separation of 547 temporaries. TOSVE HAARS Prominent Persons Appeal| in Behalf of Convicted Henry Slayer. A petition signed by a number of prominent citizens was filed today ' with the Justice Department in be- | half of Charles Harris, sentenced to die on January 11 for the slaying of Milton W. “Milsie” Henry, Wash- ington gambler. Neil Burkinshaw, counsel for Har- ris, said that in spite of protests from friends of lehs, it will not go directly to President Roosevelt. of her work with specific recom- mendations for improvement. Dramatics Alleged. Miss Borchardt charged that the present rating system results in many teachers resorting to “shows™ for the benefit of visiting rating officers and attempting to make themselves and their accomplishments appear dra- matic. She said these are the ones who usually get the high ratings. i It is necessary for a teacher to show some “dramatic” improvement in order to have her rating increased, Miss Borchardt said. Miss Borchardt said she knew of one case where a teacher joined three different churches | in order to please three superiors each | of whom was & member of a different ' congregation. i This statement brought a remark from Quinn that he did not “see how a teacher can do successful work in ' school and so much on the outside. I don't care how many degrees a ter and hospital and administrative ; This brought the total employment facilities, for furnishing which every to 93,827 in the executive agencies. one concerned Is remunerated on a'Qf these, 85,689 are listed as perma- commercial basis. The absolutely | nent or emergency, and 8,138 tempo- essentlal item in medical care, with- | rary. out which none of the facilities men- | In the field there were 705 perma- tioned is of any practical value, nent-emergency additions and 9,517 namely, the trained skill and judg- | temporaries separated. This brought Instead, the petition is being filed with James A. Linch, Justice De- partment pardon attorney, so thn‘ Attorney General Cummings may pass on it befcre making any recom- mendation to Mr. Roosevelt. Evidence Declared Circumstantial. The petition sets out that Harris teacher has as long as she is a super- ior teacher.” ‘Teachers seeking higher ratings often are told that “Franklin' School will not allow us to give any more,” | Miss Borchardt claimed. Dr. Frank W. Ballou, superintendent of schools, interrupted to deny the ment of the physician, is accepted from him without any effort being made for his remuneration, and should, therefore, be looked upon by the agencies concerned as a purely charitable contribution on his part. “This charity involves not only the gift of the skilled services of the physician, but in making the gift' there is involved time and transpor- tation, the first a potential, and the second an actual out-of-pocket cost. Object to Dictation. “It follows that any agency, govern- mental or private, that is concerning itself in planning for medical care for indigents is preparing, to the ex- tent that its contemplated activities include the services of physicians, to give away that which it does not possess and for which it does not and apparently cannot pay. * * * “The Medical Society, therefore, by the adoption of this resolution and statement, gives notice that any com- mitments for the disposal of free medical sérvices arrived at by indi- vid@ials, groups, committees or any agencies, official or unofficial, to whose dexenunna it has not been a party, argwithout binding effect upon it or {tSimembers and remain entirely sub- Ject'to its approval or disapproval.” - DRIVER IS ABSOLVED IN LEWIS BROWN DEATH Coroner's Jury Holds Pedestrian ‘Was Careless—Joseph Raphal of Baltimore Cleared. A coroner's jury today held the death of Lewis Brown, 56, of 1320 Tenth street, who was struck on No- vember 2 at First street and New York avenue by an autemobile, to have been the result of his own carelessness. The verdict absolved Joseph Raphal, 49, of Baltimore, driver of the car which struck Brown. Witnesses testified that Raphal was proceeding at a reasonable rate of speed when Brown ran from between two parked automobiles directly into the path of the automobile. 8o quickly did Raphal stop thdt there wi 0 marks on his car to indicate that~he had struck any one. Brown died Menday in Sibley Hospital. [ 4 !the total in the respective classifica- i tions to 502,952 and 75206, for an| | aggregate of 578,158. | Decline of 8,196. | With these shifts, employment in | Washington and the rest of the coun- | try declined by 8,196, from 680,181 to 671,985. ‘The principal gain in permanent employment here was in the Treasury, | with 455 ,additions. Next came the | Federal Housing Administration with lsz. and there were a score of other | advances, principally very small. | Treasury also led in losses of tem- porary employes with 331. There were 117 dropped by the National Resources Board, 114 by the Government Print- ing Office and a number by smaller agencies. The principal addition to . the temporary staff was 109 in Com- merce. Temporaries Trend Down. The trend generally was to increase permanent or emergency forces and decrease the temporaries. The principal reduction in the tem- porary field staffs came in War and Interior, with, roughly, 7,000 and 2,000, respectively. These two groups gen- erally see the largest monthly turn- over because of the fluctuating em- ployment of laborers. Agriculture showed 531 permanent- emergency workers dropped, to lead the list in this respect. Principal additions were 457 to the Housing Administration, 229 at Interior for emergency conservation work, 221 to Home Owners Loan, 211 to Public ‘Works and 105 to Tennessee Valley. ‘Fhe pay roll for the month was $100,715,284, and in addition, the re- port shows an expenditure of $1,641,- 597 for 43,110 intermittent employes | who are not carried in the regular tabulation. e COLORED MAN SLAIN Leland R. Carroll, 19, colored, 7929 Beach drive, was shot and killed dur- ing an altercation in front of his home at 2 o'clock this morning. A few hours later police of the sixth precinct ar- rested Scott Hill, alias Tom Scott, 50, colored, & neighbor, and booked him for investigation in connection with the shooting. He is said to have ad- mitted the shooting. An inquest will be held * | “later, b g was convicted on circumstantial evi- | implication that the school heads im- dence and that there still remains ' POS€ any restriction un the number of “reasonable doubt” that he is the |® particular rating which may be man who killed Henry in the spec- 8iven. He agreed, however, that rating tacular murder of April, 1922. | officers are required to submit justifi- Charles Edward Russell, well known writer, who is credited with having written the now famous Darrow re- ports, is heading the group of persons these changes are approved or disap- proved by himself. Holds Ratings Static. ' cations of all rating changes and that | interested in saving the life of the condemned man. Russell said: “We do not believe this boy had anything to do with killing Henry. The only person who said he did admits he saw him from a long distance.” President Gets Letters. According to Justice Department routine, the petition probably will not reach the Attorney General until to- morrow, and probably will not reach the White House until Saturday. The President, meanwhile, said yes- terday he had received a number of letters requesting his intercession for Harris, but he had not received any petition for him. et . INDIANA STATE SOCIETY WILL MEET SATURDAY Senator Minton and P. J. Maloney ‘Will Be Guests at 30th Anni- versary Celebration. Celebrating its thirtieth anniver- sary, the Indiana State Society will hold its first meeting of the season Saturday night in the Shoreham Hotel, with Senator Minton and P. J. Maloney, national treasurer of the Home Owners’' Loan Corp., as guests of honor. After a program of entertainment and dancing, new officers of the so- clety will be installed. Stabbing Victim Expires. John Wright, colored, 29, of the 300 block M place southwest, died in Emergency Hospital today of injuries received December 11 in his home. Police claim Wright was siubbed with an jce pick by his wife, Margie F. Wright, 26, who was arrested at the time by fourth precinct police and charged with assault with a dangerous ‘weapons . Miss Borchardt sald the system , causes ratings to be practically static. She cited 100 representative teachers and said only 4 had received rating changes in the past four years. The board was told that it is im- possible for supervisors to judge ac- sheet listings include such vague items as ‘“personality” and ‘“co- operative spirit.” the method of promotion into higher salary classes. Miss Dent charged that in some cases members of the Board of Ex- aminers have been persons without the breadth of view necessary evaluate properly the material sub- mitted by teachers seeking promotion. HEAVIER LARCENY PENALTIES URGED U. S. Attorney Garnett Asks Maximum of 15 Years to Curb Crime. In an effort to facilitate the prosecu- tion of minor offenses, United States Attorney Leslie C. Garnett today recommended enactment of legislation fixing the grand larceny minimum at $75 and increasing the maximum pen- alty to 15 years. Garnett points out in a letter to Corporation Counsel E. Barrett Pretty- man that in numerous cases of grand larceny presented to grand juries in- dictments had been refused because of the insignificant value of property involved. He stated that such cases should be handled in Police Court. The present statute fixes the grand larceny limit at $35 and the maximum penalty at 10 years. -« | curately or rate evenly because rating ; Miss Mary C. Dent, president of | the Washington local, spoke against | were arraigned in court, or chose to forfeit their collateral on speeding charges. Yesterday alone, the finan- cial clerk’s office took in more than |$1.500 on fines and collateral for- feitures. West Virginian Fined $75. | ‘Walter J. Flanagan of Bakerton, W. Va., was fined $75 for failing to stop for a street car unloading pas- | sengers. Theresa Cuddy, 642 B street ! southwest, received a broken leg when struck by Flanagan's automobile at Fourth and Michigan avenue north- east several weeks ago as she was alighting from the street car. Court was held up for a few minutes peared for him on a charge of speed- ing. The father, of Alexandria, Va., said his son had returned to school at the University of Virginia. Judge McMahon said, however, he could noty, not present and ordered the father | to have the boy in court on January 19 or forfeit the $25 collateral posted‘ on the charge. ¥ Marcel Prevots, 3115 Perry street | northeast was fined $10 on a second offense speeding charge. His personal bond was taken on an additional | charge of failing to show his registra- tion card. Fined for Second Offense. William Powers, 1410 Sixteenth street, was fined $15 on a second offense speeding charge. Judge McMahon ordered a warrant issued for Clarence E. Wye, who failed to appear on a charge of passing a | stop sign, and had posted no col- lateral. Clarence Wittler was fined $10 for speeding and his personal bond was | taken on a charge of passing a stop sign. Fred E. Carpentey was fined $10 for speeding and $5 for failing to give a hand signal when making a turn. Judge McMahon also lectured motor- ists on this, saying it was better to get a little cold air from a lowered win- dow than pay the fine for such vio- lations. Ten Fined for Speding. Among those fined $10 on speeding charges were Myer C. Coleman, Abe { Millison, Julia M. Shea, Benjamin A. Butler, James L. Robinson, Harry Reggio, Roy Bateman, Ernest Wheeler, colored; Charles C. Beck, an Army private attached to Bolling Field, and William T. Carter, colored. A warrant was ordered issued for Helen Vance, who had posted no collateral on a speeding charge and failed to appear in court. John M. Kelly was scheduled for arraignment this afternoon on a reck- less driving charge, with the Capital Traction Co. listed as complainant. Edward C. Reid was to be arraigned on seven parking charges. _ MAN OVERCOME BY GAS John B. Collier, Rescued by Fire- men, Will Recover. Overcome yesterday by illuminating gas from a stove in the basement of his home, 5121 Cathedral avenue, John B. Collier, 48, was pronounced out of danger and sent home after treat- ment by a fire rescue squad at Emer- gency Hospital. Police reported Collier was inhaling gas through a rubber tube connected with the stove when the attention of neighbors was attracted by the leak- ing gas. > when George A. Burke's father ap- | Capt. Samper had reserved the last available seat on the plane, for a visit to the United States. When he learned | of the mother’s need for haste, he| offered his reservation to Mrs. Mantilla and planned to continue his journey next week™ Mrs. Mantilla was making the long water hop today from Colon to Kings- ton, Jamaica. She probably wiil ar- rive in Miaml tomorrow night, and leave by night plane for Washington, getting here early Saturday. Mary Drapp came here last June to | live with her grandmother and attend school in Washington. Mrs. Elliott | saild today that Mary's condition had improved since Monday. She said this | bedside. Szt | GAL TEST SEEN INGIRL'S GONCERT |Mrs. Dorsey May Submit to| Arrest in Battle Against Regulation. Prebability that a test case will be made of the proposed appearance here January 22 of Ruth Slenczynski, 9- year-old pianist, whose performance has been ruled in violation of the Dis- trict child labor law, developed today. Corporation Counsel E. Barrett Prettyman said he had heard intima- tions that Mrs. Dorothy H. Dorsey, who conducts the Dorsey Concert Bu- reau and is spansoring the appear- ance, will submit to arrest and take the case to a higher court if convicted | in Juveniue Court, where such viola- | tions are tried. Both the corporation counsel and school officials are agreed that the illegal. They have disagreed sharply on matters of interpretation of the statute, however, and welcome a test as an opportunity to determine defi- nately the legal principals governing application of the law. Formal notice that the child would perform. in Constitution Hall on the scheduled date was contained in the music section of the newspapers last Sunday. Mrs. Alice Sheldon, director of the Department of Work Permits, visited Juvenile Court yesterday to confer with Miss May Helm, assistant corporation counsel, on how they will handle the expected case. Violation of the child labor law may be punished in the case of first of- fenders by a fine of from $25 to $100 or a 10 to 30 day jail sentence, or, in the discretion of the court, both a fine and a jail sentence. Subsequent offenses may be punished by fines ranging from $15 to $200 or 30 to 90-day jall sentences, or both. Mrs. Dorsey has never been convicted of a violation. Warrenton Pastor Remains. ‘WARRENTON, Va., January 3 (Special) —Rev. Julian Lake, pastor of Warrenton Presbyterian Church, who has been considering a call to a church in Bethesds, Md. has an- nounced his decision to remain in Warrenton, 4 was due in part to the girl's knowledge | | that her mother would soon be at her | th 5 3 ; year in redredging Naval Magazine, He O“]’;";’e‘“’;‘" 1:‘1 :;z‘;‘:t :“;‘;’ i Marshall Hall. Mattawoman. Smith e , spec € ' Point and Maryland Point shoals by Attorney General, objected to intro- | contract. Five of the seven shoals duction of a copy of the grant at a that have required maintenance in hearing in the Internal Revenue | the past will require redredging i | " In Occoquan Creek. Va. it is pro- Building today, but the boundary | posed t q $12,0 commiscioners. Charles H. Brough, | hoseapiane T 0 32000 for dredging for both sides adjourned the hearing | to Fairfax Court House, where they ! ary days. | - : Grant Is Eshibit No. 1. | 14-Year Detention Illegal in Case | of Ernest B. Williams, William C. Gloth and Malcolm §. Mc- | *P¢71o" Conthe, overruled ‘the Government. ‘SLAYER IS‘RELEASED will examine this afternoon several | yellowed old maps of the Potomac'| The Howsing grant was introduced as Virginia's No. 1 exhibit by counsel for the commonwealth—State’s Attor- | Court Decrees. ney General Abram P. Staples, Com- | Later, the commission and counsel AT ST. ELIZABETH’S area, dating back to pre-Revolution- | monwealth's Attorney Lawrence Doug- ‘ Committed to St. Elizabeth’s Hos- las of Arlington County and former | State Senator Prank L. Ball. | pital 14 years ago after killing a doctor Howsing, it was explained, earned | in Maine, Ernest B. Williams, 49-year- | the land grant by bringing into Vir-|0ld former soldier, was momentarily | ginia 120 settlers. In those days Gov. | free today after District Supreme | Berkeley was rewarding any one who | Court Justice Jesse C. Adkins found | brought new residents into the wilder- | he had been held illegally in the in- | ness by giving away land at the rate | stitution. . | of 50 acres per newcomer. | williams, however. was taken into The meandering boundaries listed Custody as he left the court room by appearance of the child here would be | | by Gov. Berkeley in his grant to Howsing long since have disappeared, for they referred to oak trees, islands and creeks not available for reference on modern maps. The document, dated October, 1669, | reads, in part: | _“Know yee that I, the said William | Berkley, knt-governor, etc.. give and | grant unto Mr. Robert Howsing six thousand acres of land scituate, lying jand being upon the freshes of the Potomack River, on the west side thereof, above the dividing branches of the same, beginning at a red oake standing by a small branch or run of ‘water neare opposite to a small island | commonly called and known by the name of My Lord's Island, extending downe, the Potomack River various courses 3,152 po., making a 8. Wtly. line to a pohecory standing at the north point of a creeke named by the English ‘Indisn Cabin Creeke,’ wch creeke divides this land and a tract of land surveyed for John Matthews, from the said pohecory N.W. and by W. up the said creeke and maine branch 520 po. to the red oake begun: all in- cluding several small creekes or inlets for the said quantity.” (Note: “po.” means poles and “pohecory” means “pole-hickory,” or simply, hickory tree. U. S. Disputes Claim. Virginia contends that this grant {a deputy marshal who will hold him | pending a lunacy hearing. { Williams formerly was an inmate of the National Home for Disabled Vol- {unteer Soldiers in Togus, Me. He }obtnmed a position as a barber but was prevented from removing his clothes from the institution. A doc- jtor was sent to examine him, and | Williams, drawing a pistol from its | place of concealment in his wooden |leg, fired and fatally wounded the | physician. After a hearing he was {sent to the local hospital by the | Board of Governors of the home. Williams had made several unsuc- | cessful attempts to obtain his release ybefore today. He was found to be Isane and it is expected he will be I sent back to Maine for trial. $180,000 REQUESTED FOR ANACOSTIA WORK Chief of Army Engineers Seeks Sum to Reclaim Flats and Improve River. For the reclamation of the Anacos- tia flats and maintenance of work done 1n the Anacostia River, the chief )f Army Engineers today recommended an expenditure of $180,000 during the 1936 fiscal year. There is an unex- proves that as early as 1669 her juris- | pended balance of $91,239 from funds diction was recognized as extending | appropriated last year which also will to the low-water mark on the Virginia | be applied to dredging operations, con- shore of the Potomac, including the | struction work and land purchases for mouths of creeks and inlets within an | the extension of Anacostia Park. imaginary line drawn from headland | It is proposed to do all the neces- to headland. | sary work with Government plant and The Federal Government, acting for hired labor, except that the rip-rap itself and for the District of Columbia, | stone for sea-wall foundations will be disputes this claim, holding that the | purchased under contract. This latter boundary was fix by the oflalml'project will cost $30,000. charter of Virgini the high-water ‘The total cost of all work during the mark on the Virginia shore and that | past year was $39,741, all applied to this boundary subsequently has been affirmed by the courts. Government counsel, in addition to Glassie, includes Harry W. Blair, Assistant Attorney General, and G. A. Iverson, special assistant to the Attorney General. The hearing is expected to continue for some weeks. Property valued at several millions of dollars, including what is now the Washington-Hoover territory, 1 Airport, is involved in the quuuoned‘ new work. As a result of operations, the controlling depth below Anacos- tia Bridge was 21.5 feet, with a width of 300 feet; between Anacostia Bridge and Pennsylvania Avenue Bridge, it was 14 feet. In Lake Kingman, the controlling depth was 5 feet at mean low water. ‘The sum of $42,000 has been recom- mended for the purchase and condems nation of land during the new fiscal year. 4